Alex Abbasi

Abbasi concluded his article with a call to his readers to “inhale deeply and shout: Death to Zionism! Long live the intifada!”

During a September 7, 2014 interview on Final Straw Radio (AshevilleFM), Abbasi called for solidarity with movements such as Hamas and Hezbollah — and advocated for violent “resistance” to achieve his ends.

In July 2014, Abbasi published an article titled “Transnational Mobilization For Gaza and BDS,” where he claimed:“Israel...does not legally have the right to self-defense.” He also justified violence towards Israel, saying: “The question of violence vs non-violence is not an absolute binary, but a choice of strategy.”

Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories

In his  article titled “Transnational Mobilization For Gaza and BDS” Abbasi referred to “the absolute chokehold of the anti-Palestinian Zionist lobby on congress, the mainstream media and other systems of power in the Empire.”

Abbasi also called Zionism “a historical force that superiorizes the life of the Jew over the non-Jew… and puts the life of the White European Jew at the top of its death hierarchy” and referred to Israel as the “Zionist local occupier.”

Abbasi said, as well: “Israel is the American Dream on steroids…; Israel teaches death.”

Broadcasting Hatred of Israel

Abbasi featured on Final Straw Radio (AshevilleFM) broadcast, posted in September of 2014, which dubs itself "a weekly Anarchist radio Show.”

While attempting to de-link Judaism from Zionism, Abbasi lumped [00:30:48] Zionism together with Apartheid and Hitler and called for “death to Israel and Zionism”.

Abbasi accused [00:54:00] Israel of attempted genocide and other atrocities, including chemical warfare, “white gas,” and “nails that cause extreme harm to the nervous system.” He said [00:54:10]: “They want to turn us into frogs...it’s like nuclear waste, they want to make us be born with five eyes and six legs...to the point of stopping all reproduction of life.”
                                           
Abbasi went on to say [00:55:00]: “Israel...which is also a European- Colonial - White - Jewish supremacist state...is hijacking two things at once, hijacking Judaism and Whiteness, they practice these tools of Empire on the Palestinians and on the Palestinian land and population, and then they bring them back across the Atlantic and they use them on Black people in Ferguson.”

Supporting BDS

In January 2014, Abbasi co-wrote an article titled, “A Just Boycott for Palestinian Rights.” There, Abbasi criticized Harvard President Drew G. Faust’s condemnation of the American Studies Association’s call for an academic boycott of Israel. Abbasi accused President Faust of taking an anti-humanitarian position and demanded a retraction of her condemnation.

In December 2014, Abbasi co-wrote an article published in the daily newspaper of Harvard College, titled: “Why We Called for Boycotting an Israeli Soda Company.” The article defended the controversial role of PSC’s involvement in Harvard College’s unwitting boycott of Sodastream, an Israeli company that produces water machines.

In January 2015, Abbasi signed a letter boycotting the Muslim Leadership Initiative sponsored by the Shalom Hartman Institute. The letter rejected what it called “a clear propaganda attempt ‘to influence the North American Muslim community in reassessing its preconceived notions of Judaism and Israel.’ ”

MLI was founded by Imam Abdullah Antepli, the first Muslim chaplain at Duke University. MLI "invites North American Muslims to explore how Jews understand Judaism, Israel, and Jewish peoplehood" and to further explore Palestinian identity and “issues of ethics, faith, and practice.” 

According to Antepli, “MLI aims to put mainstream North American Jewry in conversation with their Muslim counterparts.”

PSC (SJP) Activism

In March 2013, PSC initiated Israel Apartheid Week on campus by plastering mock eviction notices on dorm room doors — informing students that their rooms were “scheduled for demolition in the next three days.”

In February 2014, PSC Harvard ran a testimonial campaign, asking: “How have you experienced apartheid?”

Abbasi contributed a testimonial about his “apartheid” experiences. He complained about routine airline security checks in America and about being denied entry into Israel and deported when he was deemed a security threat.

SJP

SJP is a student organization engaged in anti-Israel activity on North American college and university campuses.

The first chapter of SJP was founded in 2001 at the University of California at Berkeley by Professor Hatem Bazian. Bazian has spread classic anti-Semitism, reportedly promoted religious anti-Semitism and defended the Hamas terror group. In 2004, Bazian called for “intifada” in America.

SJP organizes anti-Israel campaigns, including running annual Israel Apartheid Weeks, often in collaboration with Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and Muslim Students Association (MSA) campus chapters.

SJP has been a major force in pushing the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement on campuses. Chapters have initiated dozens of BDS resolutions in student governments, which have been proposed on or around Jewish holidays, a time when many Jewish students are off-campus.

SJP activists have reportedly physically assaulted, intimidated and harassed Jewish students, disrupted pro-Israel campus events and demonized pro-Israel campus organizations.

Chapters have often endorsed and campaigned for numerous terrorists and whitewashed terrorism.

JVP

JVP was founded in Berkeley, California in 1996, as an activist group with an emphasis on the “Jewish tradition” of peace, social justice and human rights. The organization is currently led by Rebecca Vilkomerson and its board members include Israel critics Naomi Klein, Judith Butler, Noam Chomsky and Tony Kushner.

JVP, which generally employs civil disobedience tactics to disrupt pro-Israel speakers and events, consists of American Jews and non-Jewish “allies” highly critical of Israeli policies. A staunch supporter of the BDS movement, JVP claims to aim its campaigns at companies that either support the Israeli military (Hewlett-Packard) or are active in the West Bank (SodaStream).

Although several Jewish groups critical of Israeli policies, like J Street and Partners for a Progressive Israel, make efforts to operate within the mainstream American Jewish community, JVP functions outside. The group is often criticized for serving as a tokenized Jewish voice for the pro-Palestinian camp and is widely regarded as the BDS movement’s “Jewish wing.” 

JVP denies the notion of “Jewish peoplehood” and has even gone so far as to refer to its own Ashkenazi (Jews who spent the Diaspora in European countries) leadership as “white supremacy inside of JVP.”

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has accused JVP of being “the largest and most influential Jewish anti-Zionist group in the United States,” and said the group “exploits Jewish culture and rituals to reassure its own supporters that opposition to Israel not only does not contradict, but is actually consistent with, Jewish value.”

The ADL also claimed that “JVP consistently co-sponsors rallies to oppose Israeli military policy that are marked by signs and slogans  comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, demonizing Jews and voicing support for groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.”

According to the ADL website, JVP “uses its Jewish identity to shield the anti-Israel movement from allegations of anti-Semitism and provide it with a greater degree of legitimacy and credibility.”

BDS

The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by Omar Barghouti in 2005 to challenge “international support for Israeli apartheid and settler-colonialism.” BDS is an allegedly “Palestinian-led movement,” although leading BDS activists have admitted [00:01:01] this is not true. 

One of the demands of BDS includes [point 3] what is generally known as the “right of return,” a demand discredited as a way to eliminate Israel. Barghouti said the “right of return” is a means to “end Israel’s existence as a Jewish state.”  

Barghouti has said that BDS “aims to turn Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.”

In his activism, Barghouti has also said [00:05:55] regarding Israel: “Definitely, most definitely, we oppose a Jewish state in any part of Palestine. No…rational Palestinian, not a sellout Palestinian, will ever accept a Jewish state in Palestine.”

The movement has been linked to numerous terrorist organizations and received a public endorsement from Hamas in 2017.

BDS initiatives include calling on institutions and individuals to divest from Israeli-affiliated companies, promoting academic and cultural boycotts of Israel, and organizing anti-Israel rallies, protests and campaigns.

The movement’s most notable achievement has been the infiltration of university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments and student groups, backed by their own anti-Israel members and affiliates, have proposed resolutions on some form of boycott of, or divestment from, Israel and Israeli-affiliated entities.

Boycott resolutions, although non-binding, have been passed by student governments on numerous North American campuses.

BDS activity is often aggressive and disruptive. It has been noted that universities that pass BDS resolutions see a marked increase in anti-Semitic incidents on campus. On one campus, when the student government debated a BDS resolution, reports emerged of violent threats against those opposing it.

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